Analyzing cancer DNA in spinal fluid could speed up and improve the diagnosis of breast cancer which has spread to the brain and spinal cord, according to a new pilot study.
Mar 21, 2022
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Acral melanoma is a rare subtype that represents roughly 3% of all melanoma cases. Unlike typical melanoma that occurs on sun-exposed skin, acral melanoma develops on the nonhair bearing skin of the soles, palm and nail beds. ...
Mar 11, 2022
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Today, treatment methods are available for cancer that complement each other. Radiation therapy is frequently used, and can be combined with surgery and chemotherapy, for example. Although treatment with ionizing radiation ...
Mar 11, 2022
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A Ludwig Cancer Research preclinical study has demonstrated that a common weight-loss diet could enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. Published in the journal Med, the study shows that a ketogenic ...
Feb 11, 2022
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(HealthDay)—The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the continuum of cancer care, according to a report from the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) published online Feb. 9.
Feb 10, 2022
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Mount Sinai researchers conducting clinical trials of a drug targeting a cancer gene found that it increased metastatic cancer patients' survival and was able to work within the brain, according to a study published in Clinical ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Independent drug action, not synergy nor additivity, accounted for the clinical efficacy of nearly all examined combination therapies involving immune checkpoint inhibitors in clinical trials, according to results from a ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer in the brain or spinal cord, has proven stubbornly resistant to newer immunotherapies. And radiation and chemotherapy, the standard treatment for glioblastoma, result in fewer than 10 percent ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine are discovering new ways to find out how effective a drug might be against cancer. Their findings are detailed in a new paper published by Science Advances.
Jan 17, 2022
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A new study has found that Lynch syndrome, which is a hereditary form of colorectal cancer, is more common in young people in Indonesia than in the UK, Europe or the U.S..
Jan 5, 2022
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